VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT (Select 1)
Danielle SangalangArchivist and Records Manager, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Biography:
Danielle Sangalang is the Archivist and Records Manager at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She holds a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science and History from Simmons University. Danielle is an active member of the Digital Commonwealth Board of Directors and Past President (July 2019-June 2020). In 2020, she had the opportunity to help guide...
We hope to see you at the 2023 Annual Meeting of the College & University Archives Section! You must be registered to attend. Please follow this link to get registered. We hope to see you there!
2023 Election: Candidate Statements
Thank you to all of the candidates for the 2023 Description Section election. Please read below for candidate biographies and statements of interest.
You will be voting for:
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
One (1) Steering Committee Member-at-Large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Vice Chair / Chair-Elect
Betts Coup
Bio:
Betts Coup is the Interim Head, Manuscript Section at Houghton Library at Harvard...
The Webinar was hosted by Rachael Woody of Rachael Cristine Consulting LLC. Rachael discussed how she set up her business, reviewed business and financial logistics, revealed how to select an appropriate consulting rate, and offered her tips and tricks for successfully entering the consulting world.
Rachael presented for about 45 minutes and then answer questions from the audience. If you have a question you’d like to ask Rachael, connect directly at 503-922-3402, consulting@rachaelcristine.com...
By Hathaway Hester, Archivist & Digital Preservation Librarian, National Association of REALTORS®
Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is the largest trade organization in the United States, with over 1.3 million members. The association’s mission is to “help its members become more profitable and successful” through professional development, research and education, public awareness campaigns, and political advocacy.
NAR Logo, 1923-1973.
Prior...
Vice Chair/Chair-Elect
Justin Kovar is the Audio and Moving Image Archivist for the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin and has been at the Center since 2011. Previous to that he was a Graduate Research Assistant for the University's Historical Music Recordings Collections and intern for the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. Justin earned his MSIS Degree from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, and is an ACA certified...
Dear EAD and EAC-CPF users,
On behalf of SAA’s Technical Subcommittee for Encoded Archival Standards (TS-EAS) we are pleased to announce the minor releases of the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 and the EAD3 1.1.2 Tag Libraries as well as an update to the Schematron files that are available for extended validation of EAC-CPF 2.0 and EAD3 XML files.
What’s new in the EAC-CPF 2.0.1 Tag Library?
This minor revision to the Tag Library covers a typographical error in @targetType (see issue #111) and adaptation of...
The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct (CEPC) seeks case studies engaging with the principles set forth in the current SAA Core Values and Code of Ethics, which was recently revised by the CEPC and approved by the SAA Council in August 2020. The goal is to develop a series of writings that address archival ethics in actionable, approachable language so that the resulting case studies can be used both as pedagogical tools and as practical resources in the workplace.
Suggested...
2026 PLASC Section Annual Meeting (Virtual)
Friday, May 29th
1-2:30pm CT
(11am-12:30pm PT / 12-1:30pm MT / 2-3:30pm ET)
Register Now for the Public Library Archives & Special Collections Annual Section Meeting!
Kick off this year’s meeting with updates from our council liaison Eira Tansey and a review of section initiatives. We’re also thrilled to welcome Vina Begay, Assistant Librarian at the Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Arizona State University Library, who will...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2026 Labor Archives Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
1. One (1) Co-chair (two-year term)
2. Two (2) Steering Committee members (three-year terms)
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Steering Committee Nominees:
1. Emma Barton-Norris...
SAA’s Description Section and the Technical Subcommittee on Encoded Archival Standards invite you to a three-part webinar series on controlled vocabularies. This series will review the purpose of data value standards, how to approach their usage, and the current encoding options in Encoded Archival Description (EAD) and Encoded Archival Context (EAC-CPF). Along with other technical aspects of their implementation, the sessions will provide examples of the practical application of controlled...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT
Katelyn Landry-Carranza: Katelyn Landry-Carranza is an early career archivist who is passionate about supporting emerging archives professionals, particularly those from BIPOC and LGBTQ+ communities which are underrepresented in the archives field. As a Texas native and recent alumna of the Archives and Public History MA program at New York University, she is familiar with navigating the gap between archival education and the job market. She is especially attentive to...
This conference brings together scholars to address the role of the police in the Holocaust, particularly in the organized murder of Jews and Roma. The Nazi state and their allies involved police at every stage of the genocidal process, from the arrest and looting of the victims to their deportation and killing. During Nazi occupation, non-German police units—some already in existence, some newly created—performed a range of key functions in pursuit of German goals, but also based on their own...
Thank you to all of our excellent candidates for standing in the 2025 College and University Archives Section election. Please take some time to review their candidate statements and get to know them so you can make an informed choice.
You will be voting for:
• One Vice Chair/Chair-Elect (or Co-chair), for a two-year term; and
• Two Steering Committee members (three-year terms).
Vice Chair/Chair Elect
Emily Shelton
Clemson University
Biographical Statement:
Emily Shelton is the...
Nominee for Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect (2-year term; 2026-2028; one year as Vice-Chair, one year as Chair)
Gene Luzala, Digital Archives Researcher, The HistoryMakers
Bio
Gene Luzala is an emerging archivist and researcher specializing in digital archives, cultural heritage, and community-centered preservation. He is currently pursuing an MLIS in Digital Curation, Archives, and Preservation at San José State University and recently received his PhD in Cultural Studies with a Museum Studies...
Please take some time to review the candidate statements for the 2026-2028 Diverse Sexuality and Gender Section leadership positions before submitting your vote once the ballots open.
You will be voting for:
1 Junior Co-chair / Elect Co-chair
1 Programming Coordinator, and
2 Steering Committee Members-at-large
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; keep an eye on your inbox for when the ballot opens!
Junior Co-chair / Elect Co-chair candidate
Ron Martin-Dent...
Annual meeting agenda
Thursday, August 16, 4:15–5:30 pm
Join us to discuss CMT’s Documentation Portal and Repository Profiles; receive updates about tool-centric working groups and tool providers; and share tips, tools, and workarounds that have enriched collections work, assessment, understanding, outreach, or other aspects of our responsibilities.
1. Updates on CMT work: Documentation Portal, Repository Profiles, Member Directory
2. Archon Users Collaborative update, Matt Gorzalski and Scott...
Meaningful Use of Social Media by Corporate Archivists
Patricia C Franks, PhD, CRM
Associate Professor and Program Coordinator
Master of Archives and Records Administration
School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/mara/
In November and December of 2011, a survey was distributed to members of the Business Archives Sector of the Society of American Archivists to understand the extent to which this occurs, the tools that are employed, the...
Vice Chair/Chair-elect
Tara Zachary Laver, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Email: tlaver@nelson-atkins.org
Biography: Tara Zachary Laver, Senior Archivist at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, has been the museum's archivist since January 2017. In that role, she has focused in part on increasing access to collections, integrating the archives more into museum programs and exhibits, and sharing the museum's history more widely. Before coming to the Nelson-Atkins, she held various positions at...
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) Collection Management Section (CMS) and the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) welcome your participation in this survey. It is designed to determined knowledge and use of the Guidelines for Standardized Holdings Counts and Measures for Archival Repositories and Special Collections Libraries by members of both sections and other archivists and librarians.
You can access the survey at this link: ...
VICE CHAIR/CHAIR-ELECT
Courtney Hopkins, Getty Images
VICE EDITOR/EDITOR-ELECT
Claire Danna, P&G
Michael Zaidman, JM Family Enterprises, Inc.
SECRETARY
Natalie Auxier, NBCUniversal
Hannah Adkins, Coty, Inc.
EDUCATION CHAIR
Catherine Acosta, Vans
Joe Stolarick, Clair Global
MEMBER-AT-LARGE
Jill Hawkins, Biltmore Co.
Ron Oppenheim, Liberty Mutual
Patricia Thibodeau, Microsoft
Grace Eng, Pacific Gas and Electric Co.
The Winter 2024 Newsletter includes:
A letter from the MAS Chair, Laura Uglean Jackson
Digitizing the Russell Barnett Aitken Collection by Charlotte Kaczmarek
“A Kind of Love Match from the Beginning”: Helen Frankenthaler and the National Gallery of Art by Kelly Burton
Thank you to all of the colleagues who are running in the 2021 Archives Management Section elections! Please take some time to review their statements.
You will be voting for:
One Vice Chair/Chair-elect, for a two-year term
One Secretary, for a one-year term
Two Steering Committee Members, each for a three-year term
There will also be a section referendum on changes to the Section's bylaws.
Ballots will be managed by SAA staff through Survey Monkey; please keep an eye on your inbox for when...
Read the latest newsletter from the International Council on Archives Section on Archives and Human Rights here! The SAHR Newsletter is written and compiled by Trudy Huskamp Peterson.
Register for the Audio & Moving Image annual section meeting
Thursday May 28 at 1pm PDT
Register here
The agenda will focus on: section business, elections,and the in-person annual meeting. In addition there will be a presentation by Tanya Yule, Descriptions Services Manager for Archival Control, Hoover Institution Library & Archives, Stanford University (section chair). The presentation will focus on the entire workflow of a mass digitization project of sound recordings for the Radio...
